Saturday, July 20, 1991

May 31, 2008 at 5:29 am (my life in france)
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Drive in the France Countryside

Off to the Southwest down the A-10 route we drove toward the town of Saumur. This time its holiday time in France and the road is packed with campers and cars loaded to the brim with camping equipment. The wildflowers are still blooming on the sides of the road and the high today is to be about 70 degrees.

Lots of sunflower fields. The flowers all face one direction – that is the direction in which the sun shines on the them most of the day. The two-story McDonald along the way is packed with cars. They do a good business here. Returned home about 9pm to enjoy left overs and Saumur Brute (a champagne, but they can’t call it that because it doesn’t come from the “champagne” part of the country).

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Friday, July 19, 1991

May 30, 2008 at 4:55 am (my life in france)
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Tuesday, July 16 – Friday, July 19, 1991

*The entries below are for the next few days combined.  The entries were short so they have been put together into one post.

Tuesday, July 16, 1991

Coffee this A.M. at the Church with the ladies.  Took some of my cookies.  They went fast.  Toured thru more shops and tourist areas with Iris and Soneda.

Wednesday, July 17, 1991

Decided to shorten the curtains.  They look great!

Thursday, July 18, 1991

Back to the grocery store.  Dinner guest tonight.  Stopped at a great bakery for a Bagette.  Walking down the street Rue de Paris, a gentleman asked me for the bread.  I kept walking.  George Swaggert visiting from Intervoice Dallas.  Great meal – enjoyed his company.

Friday, July 19, 1991

Went to the market.  Bought more of those great baking potatoes and couldn’t resist a dozen gladiolas for 30 Francs ($5USD) (They are gorgeous and we miss ours at home), and a couple of begonia plants.

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Monday, July 15, 1991

May 29, 2008 at 7:09 am (my life in france)
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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Baked chocolate chip cookies. Did it from memory and I guess I was close. They are good – even if they don’t use shortening here. RER to meet David to finish buying our curtains. Hung them tonight. They look great but I’m not sure I’m satisfied with the length. Refusing to pay high prices for curtain rods, we use IKEA twine.

Editor’s Notes

For those who never knew Georgia, her chocolate chip cookies were legendary among the family. They were about impossible to re-make by any other hands, probably because she would use ingredients we all would cringe to see if we knew what they were. She would always make individual batches for each persons liking. No nuts, less chocolate for Deborah, everything for David, big giant ones for me and so on.

I guess now it is going to be up to her grand Daughter in-law, Sara Turner to carry it to the next generation. Give it a go Sara and let us know in a few years if you got it down to a science. I’ll take mine on the large size, Deborah with no nuts. I may just post the recipe here on the blog if I can find it.

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Sunday, July 14, 1991

May 28, 2008 at 6:08 am (my life in france)
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Bastille Day and a Little Protest

Bastille day – France’s Independence celebration. We head to Church along with all the other people on their way to the Parade. Unusual incident during the first hymn. A young man walks in, draped in black leather carrying a banner displaying his protest against the U.S. policy of not allowing people who have aids to re-enter the country.

He was followed by another young man taking pictures of him for publicity. The minister spoke with them and they left. An absolutely magnificent visiting black Gospel choir at Church today.

Editor’s Notes

I mention this once in a while for those who are new readers to this blog. If you are unfamiliar with why I am posting events from 1991, or want to know more about the blog, please visit About for blog information, and Georgia for information about Georgia Christal.

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Saturday, July 13, 1991

May 27, 2008 at 6:51 am (my life in france)
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Plants at the Nursery

Off o the nursery. Bought geraniums, zinnias and variegated airplane plant. Planted them in boxes. They look great out our windows. Bought one curtain last night. We ran out of time and weren’t absolutely sure of sizes. Began to hang it today and found it to be a might short – but I fixed that.

I ripped the top hem and extended it. Looks great. Can’t ask for much more for $2 USD! The cashier charged us 11.85FF ($2) instead of 111.85FF ($20) Can’t beat that in this area. Dinner at Louis and Isabel’s home tonight.

David says he can find their home?? Well, he finally did. He was right – once we found the right area, he did recognize the house.

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Friday, July 12, 1991

May 20, 2008 at 3:58 am (my life in france)
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Bargain Hunting in St. Germain

Strolled down the streets of St. Germain today looking for bargains?? In our city we have “little green men” we call them. Actually they are city workers in green uniforms, cleaning dog dirt, raking leaves, etc. from streets and alley ways every day. Really a clean country.

There was a market going on and I did manage to get some great potatoes for baking. Since we totally forgot our Sam’s hashbrowns at home, we bake our potatoes the night before and dry them as hashbrowns the next day. Now we must concentrate on buying a vacuum cleaner, flower boxes and plants and curtains. More shopping tonight.

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Thursday, July 11, 1991

May 19, 2008 at 4:56 am (my life in france)
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The Business Dinner

Paul Millard in town. Out to dinner at our restaurant we like in the Puteaux area. Paul had veal; I had a pizza and David ordered the same as Paul but was mistakingly heard to say Lasagne, so that’s what he got. He liked it though.

For dessert I ordered chocolate flaire and got banana split, which was excellent.

Editor’s Notes

I love these little tidbits of eating at different places.  They never seem to get what they ordered.  I remember when we went over to visit them, I didn’t even bother trying to get the correct menu item.

If you are new to this blog or don’t understand what these posts are, just visit the About page and the page on Georgia, that will help explain the quick posts from years ago.

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Wednesday, July 10, 1991

May 18, 2008 at 4:54 am (my life in france)
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The Cable Guy

Cable man came today. He spoke zero English and my few French words had nothing to do with the installation of cable TV. Now we have CNN and occasionally a few other English channels.

Editor’s Notes

I remember them trying to watch the Super Bowl (and many other live events from over in the U.S.) on that TV and cable system. They never seemed to know what they were going to get at any given time, and what did show up on TV was a surprise. I think they were actually only allowed one TV as well, you could not hook up additional TV’s at all (nor phones for that matter).

Living Room in France

You can see from the photo above, not only was there only one TV allow, but it was also VERY small. What’s funny about the photo is the chairs and sofa still exist today. The caption on the photo reads:

26. Dining Room – July 19, 1991

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Tuesday, July 9, 1991

May 17, 2008 at 6:03 am (my life in france)
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Chocolate Chips and Graffiti

Attended a social at the Church – a walking tour of the market and wine, bread, fruit, and cheese luncheon. Met Vicki from Hawaii and Soneda from Boston, who live downtown Paris, and Susan from Houston who lives in La Vesinet. Really enjoyed the social.

Discovered I can buy tuna in oil here – “Thon al’huile”. Spent more money at “Thanksgiving’s” and the “American Store” where I bought a box of saltines to discover I only had 2 packages inside a sealed box instead of 4.

I must return to tell them about it. Walking toward the Metro from Thanksgiving I sat in a park with my drink and chocolate chips, sadly watching young men trying to take graffiti off the walls of a bank building. It seems the writings have gotten a lot worse recently, especially in the train stations and all over the trains.

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Monday, July 8, 1991

May 16, 2008 at 6:00 am (my life in france)
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Washer & Dryer Again

David goes to Darty store (place where the washer was bought originally) to see if they could give him any ideas on where the water was coming from. He had already checked all the hoses. Not much luck. He takes the front panel off and discovers the approximate area of the problem.

The softener cup is stopped up and not draining. The lady did tell me she occasionally poured hot water thru it to keep it clear but she neglected to tell us it was stopped up right now. We found out the hard way.

It does great now! More groceries to buy – but I’ve devised a grocery cart for us. David suggested I put a box on the luggage cart and it works great. I’ve improved my speed at the checkout counter too.

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